Mitigation and adaptation measures might have positive impacts on local and regional economies and labor markets – but with huge sectoral differences. Shifting from carbon-based economies to renewable ones might create new source of value and increase demand of skilled labour in many countries in the world – but might lead to losses elsewhere.

Against this background, the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and FOM University of Applied Sciences Essen organize an international conference in cooperation with Konrad Adenauer Foundation | Regional Project Energy Security and Climate Change Asia-Pacific to discuss these issues.

Participants are renowned researchers, politicians and entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, Asia, Europe and the US.